2020 COMPETITION JURY
The E-piano competition will take place from August 24 – October 24, 2020, and is open to all pianists regardless of nationality. Participants will compete in virtual rounds in Seoul and Washington, DC.
Jurors
Semi-Final Round Jurors
Jong Hwa Park
Born in Korea, Park’s diverse career in music reflects his passion for both performance and education. Since becoming a faculty member at the prominent Seoul National University in 2007 at age 33, Park is a passionate advocate of modern music and is a frequent guest at major festivals worldwide.Park completed his Bachelor and Master degrees with Honors at the New England Conservatory in Boston, where he followed the great artistry of legendary pianist Russell Sherman.
Park moved to Europe where he was invited to study at a number of prestigious institutions where he studied with Dmitri Bashikrov, Joaquin Soriano, and Elisso Wirssaladze. Concurrently, Park received musical guidance from Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Leon Fleisher and Martha Argerich. In 1998, he was invited to study at the Il Fondazione per Il Pianoforte in Como, Italy. In 1999, Park followed Bashkirov to Spain, where he obtained the prestigious Artist Diploma – a highly selective degree reserved only to a handful of candidates each year—from Escuela de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid. In 2003, Park moved to Germany, where he enrolled in the distinguished Meisterklasse program at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Munich.
Park is laureate of numerous competition including the Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition, the Santander International Piano Competition, the Rubinstein International Competition, and the Ferrucio Busoni International Piano Competition. Park has appeared in renowned concert halls including the Koncertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Herculas saal in Munich, and the Palais de Beaux in Belgium. He has collaborated with the some of the world’s highly acclaimed orchestras including the Dresden Symphony Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Symphony and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Andre Boainain
André Boainain Boainain is prize winner of a many major International Competitions such as Vienna Stepanov, Citta di Senigallia in Italy, Geneva International Competition in Switzeland, Paolo Neglia in Italy, Premio Jaen in Spain, William Capell in the US, Busoni International Competition in Italy. He has been recognized as one of the international pianists.
Boainain was born in Sao-Paulo, Brazil. Graduated with Honor from Salzburg Mozarteum in Austria and Freiburg School of Music in Germany (also with Honors).
Boainain studied with the world-renowned pianists such as Dieter Weber in Vienna College of Music, Hans Leygraf and Tatiana Nikolayeva at the Salzburg Mozarteum, Vitaly Margulis at the Freiburg College of Music. The musical style of Boainain is emotional expressiveness and a rich sound palaette.
Boainain was a jury member of International and National Competitions in Vienna (Austria), Jaen(Spain), South Korea, Germany, and Brazil.
André Boainain is currently a Professor of Piano at the German School of Music Weimar at Kangnam University.
Marian Hahn
Marian Hahn holds the Singapore Conservatory of Music Chair in Piano at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore where she has been on the piano faculty since 1987. As a liaison with the new Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, she has performed and given master classes in Singapore,Taiwan, Korea, and Thailand and is in frequent demand as a competition juror and for master classes on campuses throughout the U.S.
Hahn’s solo career was launched in 1976 when she became a winner in the International Leventritt Competition. She made her Carnegie Recital Hall debut as a Concert Artists Guild winner and subsequently appeared in New York recitals at the Metropolitan Museum and Merkin Hall. A top prizewinner in the University of Maryland, and Kosciuzko competitions, Hahn has toured nationwide, performing recitals on prestigious series in Washington D.C., Boston, Chicago, and Minneapolis, and as a soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Pops, and five appearances with the Jacksonville Symphony. Critically acclaimed European tours have taken her to England, France, Italy, Holland, Belgium, and Germany.
An avid chamber musician, Hahn has been a participant in the Marlboro, Sedona, Grand Canyon, and Aria festivals, and is on the faculty of the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Maine. She toured extensively as the pianist of the Amadeus Trio and was also a founding member of the Amabile Piano Quartet. Her recordings with the Amabile Quartet and Amadeus Trio appear on the Summit and Kleos labels respectively.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Oberlin College with a major in Comparative Religion, she received her MM degree from the Juilliard School; her teachers have included John Perry, Leon Fleisher and Benjamin Kaplan.
Final Round Jurors
John Perry
John Perry, distinguished artist and teacher, earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Eastman School of Music and was a student of Cecile Genhart. During those summers, he worked with the eminent Frank Mannheimer. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, he continued studies in Europe for four years where he worked with Wladyslaw Kedra, Polish concert artist and professor at the Akademie für Musik in Vienna, and Carlo Zecchi, renowned conductor, pianist, and head of the piano department at the Santa Cecilia Academy of Music in Rome.
Mr. Perry has won numerous awards including the highest prizes in both the Busoni and Viotti international piano competitions in Italy and special honors at the Marguerite Long International Competition in Paris. Since then he has performed extensively throughout Europe and North America to great critical acclaim. Also a respected chamber musician, Perry has collaborated with some of the finest instrumentalists in the world.
Mr. Perry is a professor at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, professor of piano at California State University Northridge in Los Angeles, recent visiting artist faculty at Boston University, and a professor emeritus of the USC Thornton School of Music.
He is a professor of piano at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
His recordings are available on the Telefunken, Musical Heritage Society, CBC, ACA, and Fox labels.
Yangsook Lee
Dr. Yangsook Lee is a native of Seoul and received her B.M from Curtis Institute, M.M from The Juilliard School of Music in the U.S., and DMA from King Sejong University in Seoul.
She has been performing solo recitals, chamber music, and concertos with orchestras including New York City Symphony, North Czech Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, I Soloisti Italian Chamber Orchestra, Mozart Collegium Orchestra and with several Korean Orchestras performing at the most prestigious concert halls such as Musikferein Golden Hall in Vienna, Dvorak Hall in Prague, and Santory Recital Hall in Tokyo.
Dr. Lee received the Korean Classic Music Award of 2010 for completing The Chopin Series including two Piano Concertos in Seoul, South Korea, celebrating the bicentennial birth of Frederick Chopin.
She had been Music Director of Sun Hwa Arts Performing Academy in Seoul from 1999 to 2015. She has been a jury member at several international competitions such as Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona, Spain, Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and Frederick Chopin Competition in Moscow, Russia.
Raymond T. Jackson
RAYMOND T. JACKSON emerged onto the international concert scene in the second half of the twentieth century when a new generation of concert pianists was appearing. In his childhood he was inspired by great artists such as pianists Arthur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz; the magnificent voices of Marian Anderson and Roland Hayes; violinists Jascha Heifetz and Isaac Stern; and numerous other great artists, as well as symphony orchestras. Later William Kapell, Natalie Hinderas and André Watts were among the trail blazers for succeeding generations of successful new keyboard artists.
Following his years at the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music in Boston (BMus), The Juilliard School in New York City (BS, MS, Professional Diploma, and DMA), and The American Conservatory of Music in Fontainebleau, France, Raymond T. Jackson received numerous honors, awards, and ecstatic critical reviews which made him well-known in national and international arenas. Where did this story begin for the African-American youngster who grew up in the New England city of Providence, Rhode Island where he began piano studies at the age of four.
After completing 3 years of intensive piano study and research, Dr. Jackson expanded his performance career as an advocate who would bring public and scholastic attention to those composers of African descent whose works merited performances on the concert stage and study in classrooms and teaching studios. For over 3 decades Dr. Jackson sought to fulfill this mission throughout the United States and abroad. Dr. Jackson’s Solo and Lecture Recitals, along with his Special Teaching Skills have demonstrated his profound music gifts to audiences, students and music lovers around the globe. As both a Soloist and Lecture Recitalist, Dr. Jackson has shown that whether one plays Bach or Ulysses Kay, Hayden or the Chevalier de Saint-George, Brahms or Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Chopin or Hall Johnson, compositions of these among many other composers of African descent demonstrates the excellence in spirit and craftmanship comparable to the works of the European Masters. The cultural heritage of Black composers is musically and culturally rich.
Raymond T. Jackson began his professional teaching at the age of 16 in his home studio in Providence, RI. In 1970, he began teaching music at a collegiate level as a Professor at Concordia College in Bronxville, NY and later, at the Mannes School of Music in New York City and at the University of Rhode Island. In Washington, DC, he was an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University of America. In 1977, following two highly acclaimed piano recitals at the National Gallery of Art, Dr. Jackson was offered a full-time position in the Department of Music at Howard University, where he subsequently taught for nearly four decades. In 2013, Dr. Jackson officially retired from his position at Howard University, while remaining in constant demand for his effective and inspiring teaching. At the same time, he continues to display his considerable skills as a coach lecture recitalist, concerto soloist and adjudicator.
Dr. Jackson's legacy will continue with his forthcoming 3-CD set of recordings featuring the works of 19th-century Romantic Composers; Composers of African descent; and Composers who graduated from Howard University’s Department of Music.
Helen Smith Tarchalski
Pianist Helen Smith Tarchalski has presented master classes, lectures, and performances throughout the United States, Canada, and in Europe. She has been featured at national and international piano conferences, and served on the juries for international competitions. Ms Tarchalski has performed with members of the Metropolitan Opera, Toronto Opera, and Washington Opera companies. She is currently Principal Keyboardist for the Londontowne Symphony Orchestra. The Baltimore Sun said of her performance of the Pascuzzi one movement piano concerto Mourning into Dancing: “ …the piece was poignant, captured by the orchestra in a sensitive performance that seemed to portray the struggle to find a voice for 21st-century concerns. That voice was found in the expressive performance of pianist Helen Smith Tarchalski.”
Ms. Tarchalski has taught many prize-winning students. Her students’ performances have included televised performances; as soloists with orchestras, including with the National Philharmonic Orchestra; and as soloists at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Terrace Theater. Several of her graduated students have developed noteworthy careers in music.
She serves as president for Anne Arundel Music Teachers Association in Maryland and is past president of Montgomery County Music Teachers Association. She also currently serves on the Board of Directors for American Liszt Society and Maryland State Music Teachers Association. She was selected by the Royal Conservatory as one of seven piano teachers from the United States to serve as a Regional Leader for the Carnegie Hall/Royal Conservatory Examination Program. Ms Tarchalski teaches piano in her private studio in Annapolis, Maryland and as a faculty member at Anne Arundel Community College, and she has taught at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Ms. Tarchalski is Associate Editor for Piano Magazine (formerly Clavier Companion) where she initiated several features, including the interviews feature and Keyboard Kids’ Companion. She is the author of many articles for magazines and textbooks, including the "Survey of Piano Pedagogy" entry for the award-winning Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments (Routledge Publishers), and of music education software.
Helen Smith Tarchalski studied at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University under Fernando Laires and Nelita True, and she coached with Leon Fleisher. She was awarded the Master Teacher Certificate from Music Teachers National Association. She is the recipient of the 2017 Arts Educator of the Year Annie Award from the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. In 2019, she was awarded the first Outstanding Service Award from the Frances Clark Center National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy for “ongoing leadership in the field, highest quality expertise, and support for the advancement of piano teaching, learning, and performing.” In 2020, she was a featured teacher and performer in the documentary short As We Are (When Words Fail, Try Music), which was selected from nearly 1,000 entries in 28 countries to appear in the 29th Woods Hole International Film Festival. As We Are won the Audience Award for Documentary Short and was re-broadcast in October 2020 for virtual “Best of the Fest.”
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